The joys of socialized medicine:

[spinn]

Granted when the GOVT gets involved it is hard to tell incompetence from corruption, but all but one of my DRs has been competent, but corrupt.

They need to place a $3000 minimum per year deductible on health insurance.

Watch as the market runs out DRs who prescribe lipitor for $200 a month when people have to pay cash for it.

In fact, were it not for insurance, I believe most DRs would fear for their lives as patients would become violent when paying them a months salary, for nothing.

 

[killthesunshine]

no health insurance at all..

NONE FOR ALL! LOL

PAY YOUR OWN WAY!

you commie pinkos.

YOU pay OUT OF POCKET for each and every pill, CAT scan and prostate massage

your pills for hypertension, statins and BPH!

how does this sound to ya.. CAPATILISM

VIVA VIAGRA!


ps about 90% of you would be screwed, blued and tattooed

 

[Banff01]

Quote from Angrycat:

Here's an example of how the U.S. government and local governments thwart the efforts of health care providers to actually provide health care.

The state is trying to shut down a New York City doctor’s ambitious plan to treat uninsured patients for around $1,000 a year. Dr. John Muney (pictured above) offers his patients everything from mammograms to mole removal at his AMG Medical Group clinics, which operate in all five boroughs. His patients agree to pay $79 a month for a year in return for unlimited office visits with a $10 co-pay.
“I’m trying to help uninsured people here,” he said.

Nice idea but it does not work. Your article exactly illustrates a major problem with private hospitals -> they will only want to do whatever makes them money. Who do you suggest takes care of the rest of the unpopular procedures? Yes, this gentlemen's idea sounds noble until you do the math and realize what a mess it would make for everyone. So you will end up buying a different insurance for mammograms and moles and yet another for major operations? Ultimately you will end up paying much more than you would have paid under a single insurance plan. The reality is that the hospitals need these low cost surgeries to make money, while they will inevitably lose money on other procedures. How do you suggest to deal with the above problem with only private health care? I expect you suggesting that people simply pay more for these more difficult/unprofitable surgeries to make them profitable. What do you plan to do with people who don't have that kind of money/insurance? You will always need a significant government subsidy no matter which way you put it.

 

[Banff01]

Quote from Angrycat:

The state is trying to shut down a New York City doctor’s ambitious plan to treat uninsured patients for around $1,000 a year. Dr. John Muney (pictured above) offers his patients everything from mammograms to mole removal at his AMG Medical Group clinics, which operate in all five boroughs. His patients agree to pay $79 a month for a year in return for unlimited office visits with a $10 co-pay.

Still I hate the government for simply shuting down the idea. I'm sure they could work out some acceptable solution if they gave it at lest some effort.

 

[Mercor]

Quote from Kassz007:

No idea where you got this information...it is completely false. Do you honestly believe there are no medical helicopters in Canada/Quebec?! Come on man, we do not live in igloos and we've advanced into the flight era. Ignorance is frustrating.

Trauma specialists have been warning of this lack of service for years, saying it could lead to unnecessary deaths.
"This is like not having a fire department in a community," said Dr. Tarek Razek, head of the trauma team at the McGill University Health Centre.
Timeliness is crucial after major head traumas, he stressed.
"You need to get to a trauma centre fast, and the faster we can organize that, the more likely you are to live," he said.
He stressed that Quebec is one of the few jurisdictions in North American and Europe that don't have emergency medevac helicopters.
"I'm really worried. What's going on? Why do we have this gap in our services?" he asked, adding even the smaller province of Nova Scotia has this service.
The Quebec Health Ministry has been studying the shortage of medical helicopters, and a report is expected to be handed down to the provincial government in "a few months."
"We are looking at what it would take to get that system in place, the cost and the impact of such services," said Andre Lizotte, co-ordinator of air health services and first respondents for the department.
The province has an air ambulance that takes patients who need urgent medical care, and another one will be added in 2010. But these planes are used for long distances, not to carry patients from an accident site to a hospital.

http://www.canada.com/news/story.html?id=1411393